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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-1536-1 Critical LibreOffice Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2012
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The Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-1536-2 highlights a vulnerability in LibreOffice that can lead to unauthorized code execution or application crashes when processing harmful documents.
LibreOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

LibreOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- libreoffice: Office productivity suite

Details:

It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled certain encryption

tags in Open Document Text (.odt) files. If a user were tricked into

opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause LibreOffice to

crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user

invoking the program.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution Ubuntu attack vector LibreOffice

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libreoffice-core                1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  libreoffice-core                1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 11.04:
  libreoffice-core                1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1.4

After a standard system update you need to restart LibreOffice to make all
the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1536-1

CVE-2012-2665

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August 13, 2012

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution Ubuntu attack vector LibreOffice

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1.4

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